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anon · 1mo
Heavy on twitter being a time sink, i have bad adhd and I've lost so many hours to endless scrolling. Eliminating all scrolling-based social media was the best choice for me ever. Props to you for doing it - how bad was the socmed brainrot for you ?
good work, anon--i'm glad to hear that you were able to make such a big change. i'm still working on eliminating social media in general. i struggle with reddit a lot in particular because you don't need an account to browse, and reading posts takes a lot longer than looking at a picture or watching a video. it was an easy thing to do when i was content and resting on my laurels--it doesn't challenge one at all, and while i was recovering from a difficult time in my life, i had no desire to be challenged. but the emptiness it carves out within someone is so deleterious to their wellbeing. there came a point where, multiple times a day, i would ask myself, "what am i even doing? i have one life, and this is how i'm spending it?" truly, art is what saves me, always. reading books, playing games, watching movies, creating art--those are all much more enriching pursuits, and though it takes work to restore one's attention span, it is so worth it.
anon · 1mo
got my best friend to read night eats color with me recently, imagine us screaming at his phone at 11pm in his car after the county fair. we read in silence but i made him voice the dojima / adachi confrontation to me and holy fuck, we were both REELING afterwards. we talked about it for like an hour, i wish it was a podcast episode i could have forwarded to you. (we also did this for approximation a while back, loved watching it blow his mind) just wanted you to know your talent is so severe and your works are so haunting it gave me and my bestie boo brainworms
anon · 1mo
Would you ever consider creating a bluesky account? It's pretty peaceful over there in comparison to twitter (the bar is in hell but it HAS actually been pretty chill I prommy XD).
Other than that, have you been getting into any games recently? I've been obsessed with Mouthwashing as of late. Itching to get my hands on Sonadow Generations too.
i did indeed create a bluesky account (@mallwave), although i haven't done anything with it. to be honest, twitter tanked my mental health in a big way and i'm not eager to replicate the experience, but i do miss a bunch of people that i fell out of touch with when i nuked my account.
i've been meaning to play mouthwashing, it looks to be right up my alley. i love that the main female character's design is based on shelly duvall in the shining, lol. i haven't really played anything new this year, to be honest. i replayed three houses over the summer, and now i'm rereading the house in fata morgana just to feel something again. i really ought to branch out, but i can feel myself sliding further into boomerism as i get older where i only want to replay my comfort faves. :'U
anon · 1mo
What happened to ur twotter?
i deleted it over the summer, i'm afraid. it was a massive time sink and the writing was on the wall as far as the website's direction goes. if people would like to reach me, everyone is welcome to add me on discord at consumer_electronics. i take a while to respond, but i can promise that i do so eventually. i'm setting up my neospring for when retrospring goes down, so people will still be able to reach me that way, too.
anon · 1mo
APPROXIMATION PLAYLIST MAKER HERE.. thank you so much. You truly inspire me and I mean this truly when I say your writing is my biggest inspiration for the amount of emotions you invoke. When talking with my fiancé, I always am like “yeah I want to write but have you read APPROXIMATION…” forgive my lack of eloquence rn but you are like. My idol I swear (sorry if this is hastily written!!
you flatter me, truly. 😭 this is every writer's dream. i really appreciate you sharing this with me as i slowly venture out of writing retirement (write-irement?). creation tends to be a very solipsistic process for me, and i post my works mostly as a matter of "why not," but feedback like this makes me so grateful that i do so. my only wish is that you use that inspiration to share your writing. your voice will surely resonate with others as well. &heart;
anon · 2mo
Would you ever write bestiality?
anon · 2mo
https://on.soundcloud.com/aFSRdrWWi3uvEP8Z6 Aforementioned playlist.. sorry I am a soundcloud user
thank you for this!! your selections are so thoughtful and it never ceases to amaze me that people actually put consideration into the stuff i write. i love the inclusion of lonesome organist rapes page turner and the prominence of vocaloid here (two-faced lovers is so good??). i listened to a lot of kikuo when i was writing approximation, so it tracks, no pun intended. bookmarked, downloaded, cherished, etc. i'm very grateful. <3
anon · 2mo
Hi ! I made a playlist based off approximation. Do you want to see it?
anon · 3mo
i think you would love the dynamic of norton and melly from idv!
anon · 3mo
Hi, hope the final stretch of 2024 is being nice to you (already another year almost gone geez)! Don't have too much to say, but I really love your fics and writing style! I'm going to start hosting the creative writing club at my college next week, and I wanted to use some of your tips and fics as examples of some good and talented stuff for the students. Hope that's alright.
Regardless, hope you're Ok and wishing you the best <33
thank you so much for your kind words, anon. to say that i'm flattered would be an understatement. anyone is free to do whatever they wish with my works with the exception of passing them off as their own. otherwise, they belong to my audience. i'm honored that you would regard my work and thoughts so highly. <3 i hope to one day return to the writing world, although i don't know when that will be. messages like these keep that desire burning though!
anon · 3mo
hello! i love your writing style and was wondering who some of your favorite authors are?
my apologies for the late response, anon. there aren't many authors from whom i've read multiple works, embarrassingly enough. i know he's out of vogue and has faced rightful criticism, but i still respect the merits of haruki murakami's work, and his writing had a large influence on my own. nabokov is peerless imo; his command of language is the stuff of my envy and set a standard for how i evaluate my own work. i wasn't a huge fan of the great gatsby, but tender is the night is so beautifully written that i also have a great admiration for f. scott fitzgerald's ability.
anon · 5mo
what grades do you work with? are you an early childhood educator or do you work with older children?
anon · 6mo
Seven swords of melancholy was 🤌 im happy to see more people coming around to hinamori
anon · 6mo
Okay, wtf I dont even know who you are I just stumbled on this page but this has some of the best writing advice Ive ever read. What the fuck. Thank you
anon · 6mo
okay so, i read approximation a while ago and fell in LOVE. long story short im a live audio tech so my natural instinct is to turn anything i love into a podfic or song or what have you. i finally have the time to sit down and make something soooo tldr: can i make an approximation podfic pretty please with a cherry on top?
oh my goodness this is such a wild thing to see after logging in. to this day it is crazy to me that anyone would enjoy my works enough to want to make derivative pieces. like i told the previous anon, you are more than welcome to do anything you’d like with anything i write! i only ask that you share if/when you end up finishing it. thanks so much for reading and for your support, it truly means so much. also, my spouse is an audio tech too—small world!